Students, apply to be a part of this small and engaged course to get upper-division credit and build performance-based education around LGBTQA people’s realities!

“We are helping educate people and facilitate discussions that lead them to becoming advocates for LGBTQ rights.” (Peers for Pride Student Facilitator)

Apply now to be part of the 2015-16 Peers for Pride facilitation team!

Application & interview required to enroll in SW360/WGS345: Confronting LGBTQ Oppression. This two-semester course prepares student facilitators to create and facilitate interactive performances across the UT campus. No experience required! Peers for Pride is a program of the Gender & Sexuality Center: Serving Women & LGBTQA People.

Join a thoughtful and creative team to learn to use theatre for dialogue about LGBTQA realities.

You’ll learn to engage audience participants in performance-based dialogue around:

·      What empathy and ally-ship with LGBTQA people looks like;

·      What LGBTQA oppression looks like in daily experience;

·      How these systems of oppression are affected by racism, sexism, classism, & ableism; &

·      How to interrupt oppression and build dialogue with & among LGBTQA people.

Applications due by either April 15, 2015 (to schedule an interview before registration closes on May 1) or May 1, 2015 (to schedule an interview before the end of the semester on May 19).

“Peers for Pride has been one of my most meaningful experiences in college. I have become much more comfortable having difficult conversations with people, have an easier time expressing my opinion on different topics, and feel that I have grown not only as an ally to identities that I did not know much about before, but that I am now able to help others begin or advance their personal journey of allyship.” (Peers for Pride Student Facilitator)

We look forward to hearing from you!

Questions? Email Kristen Hogan: hogank@austin.utexas.edu.

The Inaugural Student Entrepreneurship Fellowship Program is taking place in Austin beginning June 1. This six-week fellowship includes housing, a food stipend, and hands-on venture creation experience with educational content provided by the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program, all free of charge to the students.

Deadline to apply: April 22

Info session: April 13

Details at http://swicorps.org/sefhome/

The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service are now accepting applications for the 2015-16 Next Generation Scholars program. There will be an information session on the program Tuesday, February 24th from 12:15-1:30pm in SRH 3.122 (more information on our website). There will be an additional information session in late February or early March in the Liberal Arts Building; stay tuned for more details.

The Next Generation Scholars (NGS) program was launched in 2010 with the goal of providing new research and mentorship opportunities for promising UT undergraduate students interested in careers in international security and law. In 2015, the NGS program will expand to include a focus on civic engagement through a partnership with the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, expanding the reach of the program by engaging more students and involving faculty members on a wider range of local, national, and international policy issues. Involving undergraduates in international affairs and civic engagement early in their career is an important part of the Strauss and RGK Centers’ mission to prepare the next generation of leaders to help develop solutions to the most pressing public policy challenges.

Program Components

This one-year program includes two key components: First, students will take a 3-credit research training and professional development course, taught in the Fall of 2015. This course is designed to introduce students to policy work, including basic skills in policy research, analysis, and writing. Students will be trained on designing research strategies and proposals, conducting policy analysis, writing resumes and statements of purpose, crafting op-eds and blog posts, and planning for the steps in their career development. Students selected for the program are required to enroll in PA 325. This course will be led by Dr. Catherine Weaver, LBJ School Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar.

Second, the program also matches each selected student with a research agenda underway by a Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar or RGK Center Faculty Fellow to provide opportunities to directly engage in policy-relevant research and practice skills taught in the fall course. Students will apprentice in their assigned research program for the Fall 2015 semester. Students who perform well in their research apprenticeship and the research training course in the fall will be eligible to then continue as a paid research intern for their respective faculty members at the Strauss or RGK Center in Spring 2016. Students promoted to full intern positions will be expected to commit approximately ten hours per week during the spring semester and will earn a stipend of $500 for the spring semester. Students may use this stipend for independent research, travel to a study abroad program or summer internship, travel to a professional conference, or other experiential and scholarly pursuits approved by Dr. Weaver. Funding permitting, and contingent on positive performance evaluations, students may have the possibility of continuing as research interns at the Strauss Center after the year-long Next Generation Scholars program concludes.

More details and application available here.

The College of Liberal Arts is now accepting applications for the research poster presentation session that will take place during the Liberal Arts Honors Day reception on Saturday, April 18. Students will also have the opportunity to present at the Dean’s Research Reception on Thursday, April 23, where their research will be presented to College directors, chairs, deans, and faculty.

The application can be found on our website. The deadline for students to apply is Friday, March 13.

If you have any questions about research week or the application, please contact Maggie Wilhite.

Summer 2015 Undergraduate Research Program – The University of Texas at Austin

Undergraduate Research in Race, Ethnicity, & the Demography of Crime and Punishment

·      Opportunity to study social demography through course work and a mentored research experience with senior PRC graduate students

·      Program pays for room and board, and computing and research-related expenses

·      REU students receive a $4,000 stipend for participation in the 8 week program

·      Students participate in a 3-hour summer course during the first 4 weeks of the program

·      Second half of the program focus is on individual projects in collaboration with graduate student mentor and faculty director, David Kirk

·      Student papers are presented in the fall at a professional conference

·      This program is specifically geared toward students with junior standing who are seriously thinking about attending graduate school in the social sciences and, particularly, in sociology or demography

The 2015 summer REU Program application deadline is FEBRUARY 17, 2015.

See http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/prc/training/undergraduate.php for details about the REU program.

Liberal Arts is offering a free 12-week seminar focused on 10 video projects written, directed, produced, and edited by Liberal Arts undergraduates. Participants will relive and retell some of their most epic, real, tragic, and ecstatic college moments, while receiving hands-on experience in

·       Screenwriting and Storytelling

·       Cinematography

·       Editing

·       Graphic Effects

·       Careers in Digital Video Production

This is an introductory digital storytelling, film, and media production workshop with group productions of short films using high-definition video.

Participants will be provided with access to equipment, training, software, and direct support from working professionals in video production. Guest lecturers from the Austin film industry will instruct each seminar. These workshops will guide participants through the creation of their own digital story.

Students must commit to attending workshops that will be held on campus

January 21 – May 31, 2015

Wednesdays from 5:30 – 8 PM

Productions have potential to continue into summer 2015

APPLY HERE

The deadline to apply is Monday, January 12 by 5pm. Seats are limited!

To apply please visit colaclips.com and fill out the application.

REQUIREMENTS

This seminar is restricted to Liberal Arts undergraduates.

The seminar is collaborative, and will result in the production of up to 10 short films that will be showcased online and at campus events in the fall of 2015. Participants will co-own the work with the University and be able to use it in the future for their own portfolios and creative purposes.  The University reserves the right to also use the material created for educational and promotional purposes.

Limited to no more than 30 students.

QUESTIONS?

Mystie Pineda, Radio TV Film Specialist IV | College of Liberal Arts |  The University of Texas at Austin  mystiepineda@austin.utexas.edu